Recent content by Steve M.

me neither to be honest, had resigned myself to having to get a new bonnet from a breakers, but chuffed that I now don't need to. A few hours well spent.

All done. Pretty happy with the outcome. Now, time to put it on pistonheads.... anyone want to buy it!?! :) Before.... After....

A full respray of the bonnet isn't an option, would be a few hundred (at a minimum I'm guessing). Worst comes to worst I would've just got one from a breakers. As it's obviously not gone down to the paint (as no blue was coming up), so was just a surface tarnish, is there any reason to think...

Well then, I used a new pad and finished off the left side. Everything stayed white, not a bit of blue. Presumably all that means is all the mess was just tarnish on the surface of the lacquer and the finish should now stay? Time for a roast dinner, then crack on with the other side :)

Hard to say, the pad I'm using is already blue. However the compound turns a light blue when I get the pad much wetter (however that may be because I used the same pad with the t-cut earlier, and it was blue t-cut). The compound stays white all throughout the rubbing down. I'll use a fresh...

Well t-cut was a waste of time, didn't touch the mess, although it did make it much smoother to touch and was no longer rough. So I thought i'd give the halfords rubbing compound a go that I used on my headlights on one of my other cars a while ago (they got all misty and yellowish etc...

That's what I was hoping wouldn't be the case as I'm about to sell the car. All very annoying. Will give T-cut a whirl in the morning just in case that does something, can't hurt if it needs a respray anyway. Cheers

only have one more pic, but it's much the same. Just popped outside to get a couple more and it's been snowing / raining, so it's all wet and looks fine in the wet so can't tell what it looks like. Small pockets of the bonnet have bits of shine (as opposed the whole thing appearing matt)...

As the title suggests. My bonnet is awful (bought it like that as I wasn't fussed as I was going to track the car, which I never ended up doing) with the paint generally a bit nasty (not sure if it's actually faded, or if there's just been all the crap build up on the surface over time). I'm...

your hat is safe, it was the battery. Plugged it all in, barely touched the key in the ignition and started like a dream and idled perfectly, pretty good considering it hasn't ticked over in at least 4 months. Strong little motor! Now just need to sell it!

Hope so, at least that's an easy fix. Will find out tonight.....

Just tried a couple little tricks that were mentioned (press button while turning the key, leave in the ignition for 30 seconds, tapping my head while kissing the key and clicking my heels together three times) and nothing happened. Then I turned the headlights on! Dash lights turned off, then...

After doing a bit of digging I can see this is quite a common problem on here (I did check before I posted but wasn't sure what to search for to check the forum). I tried jump-starting it from my other car initially as the battery was dead, was kind of odd as the jump cables twitched massively...

Another one - when I unlock the car the immobiliser light (is this the red light on the dash?) remains flashing, but does turn off when I put the key in the ignition.

Update - I just tried my spare key (wondering if it has some kind magical powers that the other key didn't have) and weirdly it does something different. When I turn the key there's lots of frantic clicking and flashing of the lights on the dash and the bit and bobs (as well as the general hum...